Tropescilloscope: Mercy Kill

Killing someone who is better off dead. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Handicapped Badass Adult Fear Action Survivor Actor Allusion The Casanova Crazy-Prepared Stylistic Suck Silence Is Golden Deliberately Monochrome Narrator Big Fancy House Curse Cut Short Adaptational Badass Parental Incest Good Is Not Nice Dark Is Not Evil Eagleland Psychological Thriller Japanese Films Killed Mid-Sentence Framing Device Laser-Guided Karma Karma Houdini Corpsing Scenery Porn Dull Surprise The Reveal Only in It for the Money Break the Haughty As Himself Artistic License – Law The Cameo British Films Green-Eyed Monster Award-Bait Song Our Vampires Are Different Ascended Extra Genre Throwback Novelization Fainting Pimped-Out Dress Heel Realization How We Got Here All There in the Script Never My Fault Reality Is Unrealistic BFG Red Right Hand Heroic Sacrifice Moment Killer Friend to All Children Tap on the Head Funny Foreigner A Minor Kidroduction Kubrick Stare Not Even Bothering with the Accent B-Movie Loads and Loads of Characters Ungrateful Bastard Advertised Extra Chase Scene Smug Snake Dirty Cop "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Put on a Bus Punch-Clock Villain "Awesome McCool" Name Obviously Evil Death by Sex Australian Movies Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Unusually Uninteresting Sight Yandere Death Glare Neck Snap Deal with the Devil Apocalypse How Creative Closing Credits Amoral Attorney Genre Shift Failed a Spot Check Leave the Camera Running Continuity Nod Costume Porn Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Fantastic Racism Broken Pedestal Henpecked Husband Kick the Son of a Bitch Batman Gambit Vitriolic Best Buds Badass Longcoat Trailers Always Spoil No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Get Out! 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Line-of-Sight Name Better to Die than Be Killed Reality Has No Subtitles Together in Death Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Anguished Declaration of Love Comically Missing the Point Death by Adaptation Dark Reprise Chiaroscuro As Long as It Sounds Foreign Take a Third Option Empathic Environment Film Series Really Gets Around Not So Stoic Fourth Date Marriage Spanner in the Works Hate Sink Drowning My Sorrows Protagonist Title Reasonable Authority Figure Domestic Abuse Bad Boss Evil Sounds Deep Babies Ever After Time Skip I Want My Beloved to Be Happy True Companions Overly Long Gag Dramatic Irony Ass Shove A Father to His Men Adaptational Villainy The X of Y Determinator aka: The Determinator Big Bad Duumvirate Lock and Load Montage The Power of Love Mexican Standoff The Place Stealth Hi/Bye Make It Look Like an Accident Alliterative Name Department of Redundancy Department Insane Troll Logic Brainless Beauty Asshole Victim Bound and Gagged Expy The Quiet One Be Careful What You Wish For Evil Plan Stepford Smiler It's All About Me Well-Intentioned Extremist The Big Guy Historical-Domain Character Love at First Sight Betty and Veronica Death of a Child Grievous Bottley Harm Not So Above It All Exact Words Major Injury Underreaction Russian Films Disappeared Dad I'm a Humanitarian Red Shirt Vomit Discretion Shot Martial Arts Movie Attempted Rape Real Life Writes the Plot Black Comedy Affably Evil Ambiguously Gay The Smart Guy The Dreaded I Need a Freaking Drink Famous Last Words Annoying Younger Sibling NO INDOOR VOICE My Beloved Smother Insistent Terminology Sassy Black Woman An Arm and a Leg The Stinger Fun with Acronyms Very Loosely Based on a True Story Cold-Blooded Torture Sexy Discretion Shot Artistic License – History Ripped from the Headlines Adaptation Dye-Job Catch-Phrase Naked People Are Funny Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Obfuscating Stupidity Love Triangle Fatal Family Photo Translation Convention Crazy Jealous Guy Scare Chord Faking the Dead Affectionate Parody Abhorrent Admirer Only a Flesh Wound Flipping the Bird Irony Drill Sergeant Nasty Punny Name Darker and Edgier Politically Incorrect Villain Genre Savvy Big Eater You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Red Herring Blackmail Cassandra Truth Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! An Aesop Damsel in Distress Does This Remind You of Anything? Dumb Blonde Straight Gay Heroes Want Redheads Important Haircut The '60s Took a Level in Jerkass An Axe to Grind The Voiceless Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Humans Are Bastards Call-Forward Dual Wielding Match Cut Did Not Get the Girl Posthumous Character Police Brutality Red Eyes, Take Warning Cluster F-Bomb It Can Think Honor Before Reason Developing Doomed Characters After the End Pretty Little Headshots Stock Footage Revenge Leaning on the Fourth Wall Agony of the Feet Here We Go Again! Face–Heel Turn Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Antagonist Title Chewing the Scenery Mundane Made Awesome Made of Iron Even Evil Has Loved Ones Cool Guns The End... Or Is It? Even Evil Has Standards Informed Ability Earn Your Happy Ending Unspoken Plan Guarantee Defrosting Ice Queen Disproportionate Retribution Hoist by His Own Petard Man on Fire Author Avatar Fantasy Films Alas, Poor Villain Mooks A God Am I Jitter Cam Catapult Nightmare Villain Song Rule of Symbolism For the Evulz All Men Are Perverts Hero of Another Story Canadian Movies Chekhov's Gun Pretty in Mink Would Hurt a Child A Date with Rosie Palms Demonic Possession Arranged Marriage Artistic License – Gun Safety Small Name, Big Ego Sci-Fi Horror Deconstruction Gainax Ending Married to the Job Mighty Whitey Laughing Mad Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Greater-Scope Villain Boom, Headshot! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Cool Shades Public Domain Feature Films Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Rewatch Bonus I Did What I Had to Do Artistic License – Physics No Antagonist Jump Scare Dirty Old Man Break the Cutie Poor Communication Kills Needs Wiki Magic Love Captain Ersatz Vomit Indiscretion Shot Closed Circle Curb-Stomp Battle The Chick Bunny-Ears Lawyer Brutal Honesty My Greatest Failure The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite N-Word Privileges Mystery and Detective Films Meaningful Background Event Male Gaze Psychopathic Manchild Age Lift Refuge in Audacity Video Credits Dirty Coward Take That! Up to Eleven The Faceless Credits Gag Contrived Coincidence Slap-Slap-Kiss Celebrity Paradox Evil Is Hammy Crapsack World Shell-Shocked Veteran Disney Villain Death Red Oni, Blue Oni Eldritch Abomination Same Language Dub Big Applesauce Setting Update Interrupted Suicide Black and Gray Morality Funny Background Event Slashed Throat Rich Bitch Humiliation Conga The Hero No Good Deed Goes Unpunished As You Know What the Hell, Hero? Instant Death Bullet Gory Discretion Shot Children Are Innocent Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Gratuitous English Your Cheating Heart Improbable Aiming Skills Soundtrack Dissonance Self-Deprecation Badass Normal Dissonant Serenity Noodle Incident Camp Gay Offscreen Moment of Awesome Flashback Belligerent Sexual Tension Chekhov's Skill Artistic License – Military Never Found the Body Meaningful Echo Sports Stories Awesome, but Impractical Unresolved Sexual Tension Villain Ball Butt-Monkey Adaptation Name Change Wham Line Horror Films